clouder wrote:
> I had some time wrapping my head around this one messing with irb
>
> I was wondering why b.compact! would change the value of a
I can't work out why you want to build a new (compacted) array in
order to discard it and use the first element. Detect is much more
suitable:
[nil,nil,3, nil, 9, nil].detect{|e| e}
=> 3
Beware of false; you might want to say !e.nil?
Clifford Heath.